Milton Acorn statue disappears, reappears

A life-size statue of P.E.I. poet Milton Acorn, which went missing Monday night, was found Tuesday afternoon in Victoria Park, say Charlottetown police.

For several weeks the fibreglass figure of the late Island poet has been displayed on an office chair in front of the gallery Details, Past and Present. The owners called police Tuesday morning when they found the chair empty.

The figure was found in perfect condition, resting in the idyllic surroundings of Victoria Park.

The owners say the value of the figure is in the thousands.

Acorn (1923-86) was the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. He was born and died in Charlottetown, but lived and was a major part of the poetry scene in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver from the 1950s through the 1980s.